There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.